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ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti working on the Biolab facility on the International Space Station, 15 March 2015.
Samantha Tweeted this image with the text: “Reinstalling centrifuge rotors after maintenance on Biolab facility this morning.”
Biolab is an experiment workstation tailored for research on biological samples such as micro-organisms, cells, tissue cultures, plants and small invertebrates.
The unit features a centrifuge that creates simulated gravity to compare how samples react to weightlessness and artificial gravity.
Follow Samantha and her Futura mission via samanthacristoforetti.esa.int